The other day was the hottest day i've had in Taiwan so far, it was 35 degrees with 70% humidity! So stupidly i decided to go to Wulai and walk 16km in this heat. Wulai is a small town in Taipei famous for its hot springs and aboriginal culture. Most people go to Wulai to visit the hot spring or the Wulai waterfall, we saw these things within the first hour of being there so decided to explore some more, what was going to be a 1 hour walk up the river turned into a 4 hour hike! We also gave the hot spring a miss because it was a little too warm.
Before jumping in at the deep end, we decided to get some food to build up our energy for the day ahead. We'd heard that Wulai was famous for its fresh vegetables and wild bore. We found a restaurant and ordered a bunch of stuff and were sure we ordered some wild bore but i'm not convinced that we actually had any. Nether the less the food was pretty enjoyable.
After refuelling, we set off on our hike. However, we felt a little bloated so instead of walking the first part of the journey we took a little train about 2km up the valley. This took us to the Wulai waterfall and a few aboriginal shops. From here we walked about 4km to a woodland area with another waterfall and some walking tracks up one of the mountains. The waterfall was quite beautiful but we did not expect the walk that was to come. Once again we set off without a map and just followed our noses (this turned out to be a bad idea, we took one track for 2km up the mountain, when we go to the end of the track there was nothing there, not even a view, so we had to turn back and walk all the way back down.
We saw a fair amount of wildlife that day including lizards and frogs, i was more interested in seeing snakes but that day it seemed that it wasn't meant to be!
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